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Marie Haviv

Couscous

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Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Ingredients for Soup
  • Celery including leaves & root
  • Onion
  • Turkey wings or other meat
  • 2 teaspoons chicken soup mix heaped
  • Water lots
  • Cabbage chopped big
  • Pumpkin chopped big
  • Courgettes chopped big
  • Carrots chopped big
  • Potatoes chopped big
Ingredients for Couscous
  • 1 kg semolina
  • 1 tablespoon heaped salt
  • 5 cups water
  • 1/2 cup oil

Method
 

  1. Make soup in big (pasta) pot with celery, onion, turkey wings, chicken soup mix, and water.
  2. Mix semolina and salt
  3. Add 1 cup water gradually1 and mix by hand2
  4. Add 1/4 cup oil gradually1 and mix by hand2
  5. Push thru couscous sieve (big mesh)
  6. Add 1/4 cup oil gradually1 and mix by hand2
  7. Put couscous in steam tray of soup pot for 1 hour
  8. Remove from heat
  9. Mix 4 cups water into couscous and return to steam tray of soup pot
  10. Add cabbage, pumpkin, courgettes, carrots, and potatoes to soup
  11. Continue to steam/cook for another hour (May have to add more water to soup)
  12. Serve couscous, vegetables, and soup water separately
  13. Soup water is poured over couscous for flavour

Notes

Serve couscous with Chicken or Turkey meatballs, the cooked vegetables from the soup as a side, and the soup.
(1) she pours the water and oil over her hand thus splashing it around
(2) like rolling with her hand